The Holographic Universe
by Michael Talbot · first published 1991
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Why HN recommends it
Accessible introduction to the idea that reality may be holographic, with each part containing the whole. Readers say it dives into the concepts and suits newcomers or those curious about consciousness and physics.
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Today nearly everyone is familiar with holograms, three-dimensional images projected into space with the aid of a laser. Now, two of the world's most eminent thinkers—University of London physicists David Bohm, a former protégé of Einstein's and one of the world's most respected quantum physicists, and Stanford neurophysiologist Karl Pribram, one of the architects of our modern understanding of the brain—believe that the universe itself may be a giant hologram, quite literally a kind of image or construct created, at least in part, by the human mind. This remarkable new way of looking at th
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The Holographic Universe: The Revolutionary Theory of Reality by the late Michael Talbot is a must read for those interested in exploring this topic.
on “Study reveals substantial evidence of holographic universe” ↗The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot when I was in my late teens. I had never heard about Buddhism before or anything like the ideas he presented. Grant Cardone's Be Obsessed or Be Average last week. Finally, but mostly,…
on “Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?” ↗Same here. The books "The Boy Who Reversed Himself" by William Sleator, and "The Holographic Universe" by Michael Talbot, were the 4D pieces in my adolescent dimensional obsession.
on “The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World” ↗That's an interesting philosophy. One of the personalities is spiritual and believes in souls yes. You should read "The Holographic Universe" if you haven't yet. It kind of dives into some of these concepts.
on “Split Brain Psychology” ↗https://www.amazon.com/Holographic-Universe-Revolutionary-Th... The reason a hologram is interesting is that each of its parts contains the whole. Above book by Michael Talbot is a good introduction to the topic.
on “A Hologram Suggests How Space Could Pop into Existence” ↗One of the wildest books I read, maybe ten years ago, is The Holographic Universe. http://www.amazon.com/Holographic-Universe-Michael-Talbot/dp... It's a quick, interesting read, but also gets unscientific, to me, in second half.
on “Our world may be a giant hologram ” ↗I recently read "Holographic Universe"[1], which is all about this topic. An interesting fact about holograms that the book points out is that, if you cut any piece from a hologram, the image contained within that piece will be the entire…
on “Are We Living in a Hologram?” ↗Enter the implicate (folded) order of the holoverse ("holographic universe"), which Bohm (among others) developed and supported. See the non-local, higher-ordering properties of true holograms and eg. this mixed fluid experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpJ-kGII074…
on “The World Is Built on Probability (1988)” ↗